you wrote a piece, ralph, saying "compare the 1912 elections with the 2012 elections." >> it is like night and day. in 1912, that president william howard taft, teddy roosevelt in the progressive bull moose party, and woodrow wilson. tap was a republican, wilson was the democrat. they were competing as to who is going to be more progressive. president taft wanted federal charting the list chartering of a national corporations for which we still have today. they are chartered and permissive jurisdictions. the streets were seething with workers organizing, rallying. immigrants were demonstrating for justice. the women's movement was putting. for the women's suffrage. the women were leading the consumer movement. it is complete night and day. of course, eugene debs was running. he got the equivalent of 5 million votes today. he was talking to audiences an open air fields up to 200,000 people, workers with their families. fast-forward to 2012. it is like desolation. it is a advocation. it is apathy. it is to choice is between wall street choice won and lost rejoice too. two choices betwe